Gary R. Varner

Hidden in Plain Sight II Gary R. Varner

The historic city of Pittsburgh has been the home to Native Americans and immigrants from around the world. It is also home to a large variety of gargoyles, grotesques and monsters carved in stone and adorning banks, government buildings and churches. Today thanks to a city that cares about it's past these icons can be found at the Dollar Bank, the Marine Bank, Union Arcade, the county courthouse, jail and mortuary and Pittsburgh's First Presbyterian Church among other locations. Once a mighty steel producer Pittsburgh today features world class universities, museums and medical facilities as well as a hidden world of arcane images in stone. Pittsburgh has one of the largest concentrations of gargoyles and ancient imagery outside of the United Kingdom. Profusely illustrated. This is the second in a series of books about America's cities and the hidden symbols they contain.